Time Quote by Cormac McCarthy

“When he rose and turned to go back the tarp was lit from within where the boy had wakened. Sited there in the darkness…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I took one look at his composed face and know he doesn’t understand, because if he did understand, he would be weeping, too, for…

— Marta Acosta

“That the boy was all that stood between him and death.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“That spot on the road was the place where he had ceased to be a boy.”

— Humphrey Cobb

“Jimmy's eyes would turn as red and sticky as candy, and his head would fall back against the seat in a dream. If he…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“To think that I had almost fallen for the skin of his hands, his chest, his feet that had never touched a rough surface…

— André Aciman

“He woke early the next morning. It was still cool, but he opened the window and, leaning on the ledge, looked down at the…

— Rupert Thomson

“From then on, the boy understood his heart. He asked it, please, never to stop speaking to him. He asked that, when he wandered…

— Paulo Coelho

“My Mother... would tell me to imagine Jesus was in the backseat... and that would stop me. What really stopped me was imagining my…

— Kimberley A. Johnson

“Now he was singed by pain. When he finally opened his eyes he saw, at the end of the narrow green path, dazzlingly bright…

— Hella S. Haasse

“imagine that it were given back to me to be the child who knew departure would be sweet, the boy who drew square-rigged ships,…

— Marilyn Hacker

“... he lifted his eyes. The eternal kind went out of his shoulder. He opened his mouth and closed it again, speechless with outrage,…

— Michael Chabon